25 Heart Throbbing Jojo Moyes Quotes About Life, Love And Loss

“Sometimes I look at the lives of the people around me and I wonder if we aren’t all destined to leave a trail of damage.”

— Jojo Moyes

“It was indeed a gift to have someone to love.”

— Jojo Moyes

“We all make mistakes. Go and take your punishment, then come back and start again.”

— Jojo Moyes

“She was always tired, these days. She put on one of those smiles that wasn’t really a smile at all, and they went on.”

— Jojo Moyes

“I'm giving you this because there is not much that makes me happy any more, but you do.”

— Jojo Moyes

“Knowledge is power.”

— Jojo Moyes

“Life is short, right? We both know that. Well, what if you’re my chance? What if you are the thing that’s actually going to make me happiest?”

— Jojo Moyes

“Everything takes time... and that's something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously. You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.”

— Jojo Moyes

“The ability to earn a living by doing the thing one loves must be one of life’s greatest gifts.”

— Jojo Moyes

“Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are. A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.”

— Jojo Moyes

“You learn to live with it, with them. Because they do stay with you, even if they’re not living, breathing people any more. It’s not the same crushing grief you felt at first, the kind that swamps you, and makes you want to cry in the wrong places, and get irrationally angry with all the idiots who…”

— Jojo Moyes

“I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.”

— Jojo Moyes

“The only way to avoid being left behind was to start moving.”

— Jojo Moyes

“I loved a man who had opened up a world to me but hadn’t loved me enough to stay in it.”

— Jojo Moyes

“And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me. It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn…”

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“He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.”

— Jojo Moyes

“Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle.”

— Jojo Moyes

“I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.”

— Jojo Moyes, amazon.com

“...I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.”

— Jojo Moyes

“You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.”

— Jojo Moyes

“All I can say is that you make me... you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy, even when you're awful. I would rather be with you - even the you that you seem to think is diminished - than with anyone else in the world.”

— Jojo Moyes

“I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.”

— Jojo Moyes

“Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you.”

— Jojo Moyes

“Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.”

— Jojo Moyes, amazon.com

“You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”

— Jojo Moyes, amazon.com